Re: Resumptive pronoun?
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 27, 2001, 20:04 |
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claudio wrote:
> example sentence:
> "walking through an dark slum-alley by night in san francisco is really
> exciting. but *it* is dangerous too."
> "it" is referring not to a single nound but rather to the whole
> phrase: "walking through an dark slum-alley at night in san francisco"
>
> are there any natural languages which express this concept already ?
Yeah, English. Your example sentence is perfectly grammatical in
English.
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